TGIF

It's Friday once again! Homecoming at the high school and it's also spirit week, which means today is class competition day. Daughter's grade has to wear anything yellow. She ordered a tshirt, but I don't know what else she could wear that's yellow. It's going to be wild and crazy today....I just know it. Very entertaining to say the least. The kid also volunteered to work concessions during I THINK at least two basketball games today. If there are three, she will be there for all three.....she will be one tired puppy. But she really enjoys doing it. I'm proud of her. She volunteered her time last summer at the public library for children's puppet shows. She loved that. The year before, she would help with grade schoolers at the youth center. She helped cook breakfast and lunch for them and also helped with nutrition classes. She's always been the baby of the family, so I'm sure it was nice for her to be the one in charge and taking care of the younger ones. She has also helped teach knitting at "kids college" and also the knitting class at the public library. Been awhile since either of us have been there, what with all of her homework and after school activities....
Heat wave goin on here! 13 degrees! Was about 7 degrees around 8pm last night. Windchill is zero, which is warmer than it was yesterday morning. brrr! In spite of the cold, the economic situation and some personal things going on, I consider myself pretty lucky. Got a decent home and if the electricity were to go out right now, we have plenty of wood and a woodstove for heat. We can cook on it too, if need be. BUT, lol, don't EVER use a broom to sweep off the top of a woodstove while it is burning wood! Husband did that yesterday when he got home from work. I think he set some of the wood on top of the stove while he was putting some IN the stove. So he thought he'd sweep it off with the kitchen broom. BAD idea! The plastic from the bristles started melting on top of the stove and made a black tarry mess! If it had been a straw broom, it probably would've caught fire! I had to laugh at husband for not thinking at the time, and said sarcastically " well, it's a good thing you didn't think the stove needed to be thoroughly cleaned, and throw a bunch of gasoline on it!" He said he would if I thought it would help. I told him no, not unless I got everything out of the house first...especially my family pictures. Of course he would never do something like that. What is it about males and fire anyway? I mean I love a nice fire to look at. It's hypnotic. But guys seem to want to set everything on fire! Husband tends to get the wood stove TOO stoked and sometimes it gets stifling hot. Then I feel like I died and went to hell! He almost set the house on fire one day last year. I came home from work and the grass was burnt clear up to the patio and part of the neighbor's back yard was burnt too. It had burned right up to husband's truck and in places had gone clear up to the alley! When I asked him about it, he said he had cleaned the ashes and coals out of the wood stove and dumped them out in the yard, thinking since the ground was damp, that it wouldn't hurt anything. WRONG! He said he didn't notice that the grass had burned (the grass was dead and all dried up) all over, until hours after he'd dumped the coals. And that it must've burned itself out. OMG! I asked him if the fire dept came by, and he said no. He could've been fined for that! He didn't seem too worried. Was calm and cool as a cucumber about it. I told him I didn't wanna have another house fire! And this time, it would've included the icky little rental house next door! He would've been fined BIG TIME for THAT! Men!
Well, off to get ready for work. Should be a very VERY mild day today work-wise. Then again, the boss may have lots of things for me to do besides my regular duties! We will see.